Do *anything* you can to keep it at bay. I fought off a nasty round of something earlier this winter using Zicam. Don't know *why* I didn't use it when this crud started.

The first week I was sick it felt like I was fighting off a cold. Not really sick but at the edges. The next week, I thought I had finally come down with a cold, then I thought I had laryngitis, then I thought I had bronchitis -- finally I figured it was probably a particularly aggressive flu. I saw on CNN today that the flu is raging in this area.